Topic: What are your hobbies outside of bikes?

[VonYinzer]

Buildin a 67 vw hot rod (see volksrods.com, my cars not on there but it'll give ya an idea).

[volkswagendan]

rock the vdubs von yinzer!

[billybobobrain]

rock the vdubs von yinzer!

I think I just wet myself!

I would kill to have a pre 66 bug again.

[volkswagendan]

check out thesamba.com then. lots of good stuff there.   i'll take one 67 or older though.  just gotta give it the old 12 volt update.  i can smell the interior just thinking about it.

[Lamp]

does constantly thinking of ideas, for your bike, car, and life in general but never really following through count as a hobby lol just kidding, but not really. anyways i do kinda have a thing for off beat foreign films. i'm pretty sure that one counts for real

[VonYinzer]

rock the vdubs von yinzer!

hell ya brother..... i bought a 66 a few years back, for 400 bucks complete. than i took the body off and it fell apart! it literally broke in half! so a buddy who has a 63 baja ( w a super diff, polished 1776 w dual 2bbls. etc, and a 71 street beetle) traded some #$%* and he hooked me up with a complete chassis and trans out of a 68. I threw on an adjustable front beam which dropped the front end 4" and found a sweet set of old school 5 spoke wheels in a junkyard for 50 bucks. As of now the completed chassis is sittin in his garage, waiting for me to do something useful with it. Once the bikes done thats my next project. Im tinkin something along these lines...........

[benly- ben]

That's not very boring.

I collected stamps when I was younger.

That is boring.

I tried knitting once.

That is boring.

Eck.

Let the boring-ness begin, I've just started sewing class this term
Ben

[Jakoba]

  i can smell the interior just thinking about it.

What is it with that interior smell?
Everytime I see a bug I can still smell the interior.
We had a semi auto when I was a kid...can't remember the year.

Cool little cars.

Jako

[volkswagendan]

after owning 50 air cooled vw's over the years my best guess at that smell is,  hot pleather seats, horse hair padding, and the faint smell of the gas tank up front.  if it was a smokers car you have to add the smell of the yellowed out headliner too.  i freakin love that smell!

[HavocTurbo]

Sad to say it......

Outside of bikes I......



















Sell furniture.




And not just any furniture.....




Amish Furniture.

Why you ask? I have no freaking idea. Kinda fell into it.

[volkswagendan]

you should sell amish pole barns too.  with those amish fireplaces you see on t.v. in them. 
those amish people build with that old-world quality.  not like that made in china crap thats pumped into the US.
so i dont think its "sad to say" Havoc. 
bet you get good food from them too!

[HavocTurbo]

you should sell amish pole barns too.  with those amish fireplaces you see on t.v. in them. 
those amish people build with that old-world quality.  not like that made in china crap thats pumped into the US.
so i dont think its "sad to say" Havoc. 
bet you get good food from them too!

Lol it's only about the most uncool thing I could do.  I do appreciate the ego boost though. 

Those fireplaces aren't amish. It's a pine plywood box someone threw around an electric heater you can buy at Home Depot for half the price. Piece of #$%* they are. Then they paid a bunch of craftsmen to look like they were making the boxes. Total hoax.

www.SimplyAmish.com - Everything we sell.

[Bob Wessner]

Interesting, Havoc. Seems we have one nearby over in Dixboro. We'll have to have a look one day.

[HavocTurbo]

Interesting, Havoc. Seems we have one nearby over in Dixboro. We'll have to have a look one day.

Thing that sold me was the Lifetime Guarantee. I was floored when I returned my chair after a year, I'm hard on them, and they fixed it for free. Then told me if it gets that way again, they'll replace it at no charge.

Right then and there I jokingly asked for a job. Been here ever since.

[fuzzybutt]

the amish are also FANTASTIC harness/saddlemakers. my close contact saddle is amish made.

[masonryman]

I  have worked with and actualy shown a few tricks of the trade to some amish fellas, don't tell my union brothers.

An odd bunch they are, to get to my point, if they are really amish who put up the web site for them and how do they know what is really on it.

fir dat yu'll shirly burn in hell

[kslrr]

Playing guitar and singing, wood working (built a bunk bed system for my 5 boys), model railroading (HO and N scales), electronics design and fabrication.

[Caaveman82]

Playing guitar and singing, wood working (built a bunk bed system for my 5 boys), model railroading (HO and N scales), electronics design and fabrication.

I was addicted to model trains when I was a kid. My dad let me take over half the basement and my grandpa helped me build the whole set up. He was a rail man for many years.

[masonryman]

Playing guitar and singing, wood working (built a bunk bed system for my 5 boys), model railroading (HO and N scales), electronics design and fabrication.

 N scale is cool I built a working N scale truss and counterwight draw bridge as  drafting project

[333]

The Amish thing reminds me of a good story.  Mike Myers did a skit on Saturday Night Live about a Scottish dude who worked in a store called "Everything Scottish", and the catch phrase was "If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP"( with a heavy accent and rolling of the "r" in "crap).  So, my wife and kids used to weekend about an hour and a half away, and we would pass this place called "Everything Amish".  One weekend, obviously after seeing the rerun on Nickelodeon, my son(probably about 10 at the time) spouts off the catch phrase with a perfect roll on the "r", and replacing "Amish" for Scottish.  We laughed for about 30 minutes.

[HavocTurbo]

I  have worked with and actualy shown a few tricks of the trade to some amish fellas, don't tell my union brothers.

An odd bunch they are, to get to my point, if they are really amish who put up the web site for them and how do they know what is really on it.

fir dat yu'll shirly burn in hell

Several families work with "brokers" who put the information on the website for them. And while some communities can have phones in their work spaces, as well as electricity etc, they do not. It's a weird process but it seems to have worked well for them.

[volkswagendan]

i always wondered how they got their pole barns to the sight. 
on a horse drawn flatbed??   

[alltherightpills]

i always wondered how they got their pole barns to the sight. 
on a horse drawn flatbed??  

Yep.  There is a large Amish/Mennonite enclave about 15 miles south of Iowa City and every fall, you'll see Amish with huge teams pullin flatbeds full of timber (to burn for heat, not to build pole barns.)  I've got a friend whose grandparents "haul Amish."  Which means they drive them into town whenever they need to go to a doctor or get groceries from Aldi's.  The other thing that cracks me up is that there is a sawmilling operation run by the Miller family.  How often do people's last name actually correspond to their jobs anymore?

I had a friend who was out mudding in his truck and got stuck on this old backroad.  Some Amish guy pulls up behind him with a team of 4 huge phucking draught horses hauling lumber.  Since my buddy is stuck in the road, the Amish guy can't get around him, so unhitches his team from the trailer, hitches them up to the truck and with a "haw" these horses hunker down and pull the truck out.  I wonder what that Amish guy was thinking about us and our newfangled technology.

[Duke McDukiedook]

Ammana Colonies. Where they used to make Amana appliances.

Hobbies: Skinny-skiing and bullfighting on acid.

[fdbrat]

Well I do allot. My band and I do one week tours every now and then to near by states of California. We play the damn Punk Rock.

Going to school and polishing up my Sound tech skills.

I just had an interview for a sound tech intern. Yet the guy said they want to start paying me right away. What ever. Ill get to meet Charlie Danniels soon.